Original Genius

Graham Bernard Shaw wrote about original genius and said there are those who contribute to the life force and they are normally original thinkers. Japan tends to copy America in everything. It's quite sad because America just about destroyed that nation with the A-bomb and now they bow to them in copying them in everything. It was something I observed while in Japan. In life too there are people who copy what original genius create. 

Luke, one of our church musicians, remarked yesterday: 'the reason I do not like most Christian music is because they always try to copy what is in the world already and they do such a bad job of it!' 

When the Beatles emerged, suddenly there was a host of other boy bands: The Animals, The Troggs, The Small Faces...everyone suddenly grew their hair to hang on their foreheads and every band had three guitar players and a drummer.

Pioneers pay a price of being rejected and despised at first but later on they are emulated for the very thing they have been rejected for. Moses for instance: Acts 7 they say that the Jews rejected Moses as their leader but the same Moses led them out by the hand of the Angel that appeared to him in the burning bush. They said, 'who made you a judge over us?' That same Moses became their judge in the wilderness. What people accuse you of can become your epithet. The Jews said Jesus is not our king, and they got Pilate to crucify Him, but Pilate wrote in three world languages: The King of the Jews! And hung it on the cross above Jesus' head. The accusation became his title.

They used to mock me as a little boy and call me 'apostolie!' from across the street and at school the teachers called me 'Pastoortjie'. Little did they know they were announcing my mission and ministry in life, simultaneously? It was hard being mocked and despised because I was Pentecostal, but I am what I am today because of the persecution I have received.

If the devils knew what was happening when Jesus was crucified they would have prevented the crucifixion. When they rejoiced that Jesus died, they were sealing their own defeat forever!

Think about this principle and it will bless you too - for all of us have some area where we have been rejected and despised, but God is our redeemer, He redeems these areas and turns our negatives into positives.